There’s something about nerdy girls that always kinda did it for me. It’s the “naughty librarian” fantasy – you know, the one where the shy, reserved girl lets down her hair and turns out to have a hot bod hidden beneath her frumpy clothes, and secretly knew how to get down “at band camp.” Hehe.

So I was walking around when I spied two young ladies, one of whom was nothing to look at, but the other – wow. Total nerdy girl on top, with no makeup and a cute smile. Not quite the naughty librarian, but she was all of the Korean student in cute and casual mode, despite the fact that this involves heels with that high-cut pair of shorts. I actually spied them walking in the opposite direction from me, across the intersection from me. I wasn’t ready with the equipment, anyway, and by the time I had thought about it, they had disappeared. Much to my surprise, I picked them up on radar again, walking not too fair ahead of me in the same direction. They took a detour into a small bakery, so I got up the courage to make up an excuse to go in there with them. I pulled off several shots with them choosing bread, and her flexing those leg muscles about as she chattered with her friend over which pieces to buy. On thing I like about Nerdy Girl is her strong and defined ankles, which pinch into a nice taper in the back.

She also does what I call the Korean girl “strap-o-sass” walk, which involves equal parts being too bothered to actually properly put on the strap at the back of your heel, not wanting the irritation it provides, being able to slip off the shoes and wiggle your feet at any opportunity, as well as to walk with the somewhat rude, somewhat sassy “slap-slap” of mules that aren’t supposed to me mules against the soles of the feet.

You see the strap-o-sass a lot in younger girls and the lower class. It’s considered a bit rude and you’d never go visit someone important with the “slap-slap” of the strap-o-sass while popping gum, which often go together. But I must admit that, done right, the strap-o-sass can be kinda hot.

Going along with her strap-o-sass is the kind of over-feminine strut that you get with women who really like to wear high heels. It’s hard to explain, but it’s kind of a step, sway, let-the-weight-settle, repeat cycle done at a slower gait; it also involves stepping down deliberately heel-first, like one is supposed to do when walking in high heels. It’s not the cutesy gait that goes along with stepping toe-first and walking pigeon-toed that a lot of Japanese women do, along with the high heel uninitiated.

Nerdy Girl was all of these, walking with her strap mashed down and swinging her legs all the way out while strutting confidently with her friend. I got the best shot of her as they walked out of the bakery, a lucky, lucky shot out of the several I fired off with my camera’s motor drive. In the shot that I love, it’s almost as if she stuck out her leg to let me have a good look at it. Lucky, lucky.

Her leg is a typical Korean one, having not seen much real exercise but being quite skinny. There’s a certain aesthetic to that kind of look, especially when there’s a nice arch and a clean, even presentation of toes across the front. Nerdy Girl has the kind of casual sexiness that I like as much as the girls who put all kinds of time and money into their feet and bare much more leg than should be legal outside of Vegas or something.

I must admit that Nerdy Girl’s toes are pretty attractive, ahem. I guess they can be thought of as the toes I would imagine the naughty librarian in my mind to have – clean and unadorned, but filling out a heel and an arch that could be quite sexy if she tried.

Grr. Nerdy Girl was a good find; what do you guys think? Naughty librarian? Too much?

People who sexually abuse minors are reprehensible people. But because of their misguided tastes, do the appreciators of the lower female form have to suffer?

PHILOLOGY

Now, let me just say that pedophilia is a really, really bad thing.

That being said, I’ll also add that I think it a shame that such a potentially good word got taken by such a nasty concept.

If you think about it, “pedophilia” is an unusual word. Most “phile” and “phobe” words tend to fall along the lines of positive and negative, respectively. Positive – audiophile, bibliophile, technophile, Francophile. On the negative and the conceptual end of things, you have homophobia, arachnophobia, claustrophobia, agoraphobia, negrophobia.

Were you learning English, you might be right to be surprised that the foot-related root “ped” – the one used in pedestrian, pedal, pedestal, and pedicure. “Ped” comes from Latin the pedalis, which passes down the meaning of “foot.”

And yes, there’s the “pedo” found in pediatrics, which comes from the Greek pais, paid, which means “child” or “boy.”

But between the legacy of Latin (foot) and Greek (child) influence, there are simply many more words that have to do with “foot” using the “ped” prefix. And yes, even though “phile” (from philos) is of Greek origins, most of our associations with that word are neutral to positive, as I just mentioned.

There isn’t much point to fighting convention here, but I’d just like to say that the negative connotations associated with having a so-called “foot fetish” are not much better (although it’s not illegal!) than being a “pedophile,” at least in terms of either of these concepts being considered “sexual deviant” behavior. Look in a psychology textbook. I did.

“FETISH”

So, I’ll say that I’m neither a “sexual deviant” nor a person who likes to lick feet or choke the chicken all over women’s shoes. I’m simply a person who acknowledges the perfectly, glaringly obvious – that the feet and legs of women are major fetish objects in Chinese, Japanese, and yes, Korean culture.

Isn’t this obvious? For a lot of reasons? We don’t even have to get into discussions of Chinese foot binding, the endless numbers of Japanese leg and stocking websites, or how old-school Korean men would supposedly go all crazy over the “upturned heel” peeking out from underneath Korean hanboks? And if you look at how Korean women pamper and pedicure their feet nowadays, the high-rise skirts, and the similarly feet/legocentric nature of naughty Korean sites, you must know that the combination of feet and legs are secondary in importance to only the face in Korean definitions of beauty.

Add to that the conventional wisdom that black guys “like big butts” or that “gentlemen prefer blondes” or certain dudes are “breast men” and suddenly liking how a shapely pair of legs tapers down to a cute pair of feet in heels doesn’t seem so weird does it?

What straight dude doesn’t want to see a pair of long legs perched atop a pair of sexy heels? Is that a weird “fetish,” or actually pretty normal? And if we can acknowledge the fact that some girls have cute feet and some don’t, then that’s pretty much the ball game, right?

We just appreciate the whole lower package ’round here.

I’m the kinda guy who looks down and then looks up, unlike some men who do the opposite.

I’m the kinda guy who thinks that shoes say more about a person than any other single piece of clothing.

If you agree, then I guess I’ll be seeing you around!

Starting off with a whimper, here goes the first post and the first decent picture I pulled off, armed with the slightly embarrassing mission of capturing the most unusual of images.

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I took this picture of a girl who was pretty plain on top, but quite delicately put together on the bottom. Hers are of the long and slender type, and are presented quite well in these particular shoes. I caught her in a prime, pretty pose that really highlighted her casually trussed, but elegant arches.